The purpose of this Article
XII is to provide for elderly affordable housing. The Elderly Affordable Housing District is established as a special district which overlays an existing residential zoning district. The Elderly Affordable Housing District permits the development of elderly affordable housing units subject to the specific regulations and requirements contained in this Article
XII, which regulations and requirements shall govern even where they are inconsistent with or less restrictive than the other requirements of the Zoning Bylaw. The regulations of this Article
XII relating to use, building and lot dimensions, development intensity, parking, ingress and egress, and site plan review shall only apply to an elderly affordable housing development and not to any other use that is allowed or permitted in the underlying zoning district.
As used in this article, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
AFFORDABLE
Dwelling units leased by a nonprofit corporation or governmental
entity, the rents for which do not exceed the guidelines for such
rental housing established by the United States Department of Housing
and Urban Development (HUD) or any successor agency or by any comparable
agency of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
The following uses are permitted: elderly affordable
housing development.
An elderly affordable housing development shall
comply with the following requirements:
A. Minimum lot area: eight acres.
B. Minimum lot frontage: 50 feet.
C. Minimum front yard: 50 feet.
D. Minimum side yard: 50 feet.
E. Minimum rear yard: 50 feet.
F. Minimum density: eight units per acre of contiguous
upland.
G. Maximum building height: 40 feet.
H. Maximum permitted height: 2 1/2 stories.
I. Maximum building coverage of lot (covered area as
percentage of total lot area): 15%.
J. Maximum site coverage as percentage of total site
area: 50%.
K. Minimum residential net floor area (square feet):
none.
Parking standards are as follows: one space
per dwelling unit.